While absorbing this maritime tale through Miller's inclusion of poignant and descriptive language, a few phrases stood out to me as especially unique, memorable, or of the uniquely "military mindset" variety...
There were still some incoming mortar rounds, so the Hawke broke away from the other ships, looking for a vector that wouldn't endanger their own ground forces. Several minutes later the destroyer found the angle she required and with deadly efficiency silenced the remaining pockets of resistance.
The air stank with sweat, spent gunpowder, fuses, and projectiles. It clung to the men like cheap perfume on a Filipina hooker.
Both of these excerpts appeared around page 58, but were there some others that caught your immediate attention too?